No Smoking but lots of Chatting...Successful thread #2

[charliecat]

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sorry, can't stop PN, but 3 bottles a day...everyone's tolerance level is different, e.g. if i had that i'd be no good to anyone

however, i think whatever helps you through this - it won't always be as hard as at the very beginning! don't stress about it, remember that your 3 bottles probably equal my glass of wine!

crossed posts mammya, but yes, i agree, the first few weeks are def the biggest for finding a substitute 'vice'!

Are we talking three normal sized bottles of beer pn, like budweiser or something??? I am ashamed to say that I could happily quaff that every day (and do have at least a couple of glasses of wine most evenings) and am now thinking argh, what a lush I am....

Am I right in thinking that everyone's meaning that three gigantic, mammoth sized bottles would be way too much.....?

I'd really hate to feel bad about bevvy after kicking the fags but I do probably enjoy a drink a bit TOO much...

Like your drinkie tip from M&S mm!! Gonna go to bed and ruminate on my alkie tendiencies

Hi Fiona, well Prefernot says it's 3 small bottles of beer.
For women the limit is 14 units per week, so no more than 2 units per day, right? But I don't know how many units in a small bottle of beer, it depends on the actual volume contents of the bottle as well as the strength of the beer. On the BBC website it says: Pint of standard lager - 2.3 units
Pint of premium lager - 2.8 units
But as I said, when I initially gave up smoking, I was well over 14 units per week! Have you found you've started drinking more since you've given up smoking? If that's the case then hopefully your drinking will decrease after a while. If not, then perhaps it might be an idea to check how many units you're consuming per week (although to be honest I think these limits are quite low!)
How are you otherwise anyway? How's the not smoking going?

I have a new addiction, Mumsnet, I really have got out of bed at 5.30am to browse MN before the kids get up
For what its worth Allen Carr the quit smoking Guru says hes yet to meet a nonsmoking alcholic, not sure exactly what hes trying to say, but I dont know any pissheads that dont smoke either, so maybe fags and booze both hit the pleasure zone and by quitting one you take up more of the other.
I dont drink very much or smoke weed but when I stop smoking I start on the vodka in the evening, just enough to numb the rattles I think...and then theres the weed....
But I think even if your rattled every evening, as long as you know this is just a phase to get you through then in the long run its PERFECTLY ok and it does tail off after a short while I have found....and you look back and wonder why you needed all those beers.
I would have 2 beers and be pissed BTW so 3 would have me rolling round the floor maked laughing unconrollably...so I dont go there very often, Vodka just numbs me and makes me sleep.
Its the same with food, at first you find yourself swinging on the fridge nibbling at anything and then that stops after a few weeks and your back to normal again.
For the first couple of weeks I was having about 3 packets of crisps a day
Mammya youve been practicing with the bolds and the italics I see
Oh and one more thing about booze, a few nights ago I had a carlsberg bottle of beer and it gave me a 4 hour headache....
Going to browse MN and Ebay might be back later to ramble away to myself!

Or indeed rant in cyber space...
Because I want to get in the bath the hot water is freezing cold and is making no effort to heat up
I can sense a luke warm bath coming on and there really is nothing worse. Especally when youve got up early and if the water wasnt so bloody cold I could be soaking in a nice hot one
Ive sorted out the socks into pairs this morning ...and BTW the reason Ive been so quiet is im blitzing my house as its both the kids birthdays on Sunday, I have a party to plan for Saturday(not here, at a plastic ball pit place) and I know that Xmas flys in after thier birthday so im shit shuffling and making some space for the new toys and crap. Spend a solid 3 hours last night and theres still bits that need done...oh to live in tidy house

It's going really well thanks mammya, quite spooky as have hardly been feeling bad tempered or tearful at all... 481 fags not smoked. dh quit AGAIN yesterday but am not paying too much heed cos have to do it on my own, whether or not he smokes...

yeah you're right mammya and cc, these things do tail off, the boozing and snacking, I do drink over the weekly units but find if am feeling knackered or ratty I just stop, and also I do get a bit sick of it sometimes. Would SERIOUSLY like to look at cutting down drink quite dramatically, to help running & energy levels, but don't have the heart at the mo. Would just like maybe 2 or 3 booze free nights a week, eventually. But ONE THING AT A TIME eh girls!!

Have also been buying way more clothes than usual.

Mum has been here past 3 days so big help with kids. Dh working all w'end so it's gonna be v busy with kids, know your dh works w'ends sometimes mm, crap isn't it (v rare for mine tho so shouldn't moan really....)

Best get on with work, catch you later xxxxxxxxx

(3 weeks, 3 days, 2 hours, 22 minutes...)

Can identify with the OH TO LIVE IN TIDY HOUSE cc! Hope parties go well... good luck! xxx

3 small bottles so a unit each I guess. I don't feel at all pissed by the way but I do drink them slowly over quite a few hours also with food. Wine makes me more drunk. 2 glasses and I'm anyone's!

I'd love a tidy house too. As it is I've got a very dishevelled flat which looks distinctly as though 2 rather insane students live in it. I used to be very tidy when I lived alone but the wear and tear of a scruffy dp with no practical sense whatsoever and a little dd who's forever re-organising things have taken their toll.

I haven't got a headache today. So far.

My dp works every weekend alas. He has to as he has to work 5 days a week and 2 week days he looks after dd when I work so he has to make up his hours over the weekend. Very occasionally he gets a Sunday afternoon free and we get a 'family' moment. Sometimes I think dd thinks he and I never spend any time together, it's either one or other of us with her!!

Big Big Sigh...dp has invited some friends round because he knows the house is tidy, the thing is, they were coming round tommorow anyway so now they are coming round tonight, tommorow then its party day then its birthday....I doubt ill be posting much
Got a mantra going in my head 5 minutes peace, 5 mnutes peace...after this mornings silence before the birds even woke up I am craving quiet time!!!!!

Ooh, I hope they're all non-smoking friends cc so you're not tempted...

I've noticed that today I've hardly thought about having a smoke. It's been the first real day in which i've had NO cravings. Even now I'm thinking about it I'm not getting that 'hungry lung' feeling. Good, no? And strange because I didn't think I could go a day without really thinking about smoking.

Ahh peace thier car is knackered and they cant get here tonight and they are coming, as planned tommorow being dropped off and picked up...very pleased. Have had 2 joints this evening and dp is under stict instructions to hide the weed so i cant find it tommorow.

What do you smoke in your spliffs cc? I mean do you use tobacco as well?

Cor im becoming increasingly self centred...now about u...well done for having a crave free day! Be warned though, they do come back to haunt you when you least expect it, but your on your way! No headaches I take it?

Er yes...

which is y they are so appealing when im not smoking fags.

Oha dn while im here my caveman other half is doing the dishes and had just cooked ME dinner......swwwwoooonnnn

Lucky you, what you having?

Don't you worry that as long as you have fags in your smokes you'll still have a slight addiction? How about using herbals (I know they taste vile)? Or taking up a small pipe?

Relatively headache-free today thanks, cc. A bit ropey this afternoon and got a turtle neck tonight ...

Its like walking on a tight rope and if dp wouldnt purchase huge lumpos of the stuff id be fine
its the fact its a fag in disguise......I kid myslef its ok till im on 10 a day...going to watch ch4 nbow mmr programme

home done chips eggs and peas with cheese melted on topmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Peas and melted cheese?!?

Urg ... the MMR programme. I've had to watch it already at work for research purposes. I'm not going to like what response it brings about ...

Couldnt watch the mmr programme, the narrator bloke had a laugh in his voice and i could sense it was going to be a childish take the piss...was it?

CC - just realised that your dds are a day earlier than ds1...his birthday's on Monday!

glad to hear the headhache's subsiding PN...btw, why is an artist doing research on the MMR?!

fg, dh works every Sunday but i still empathise! how's your running, i see your thread's going strong! i have got the stuff in for the xmas order, do you want me to do it as soon as?

am going to blitz this xmas shopping business tomorrow on my 'day off' whilst dh looks after the kids, so will be absent during the day (as i am anyway i know

see you guys later...

oh yes peas and melted CHEESE????

what happened to my italics?!

ARe you practising too MM?